Hillary Clinton continues to cut into Donald Trump’s lead a Wisconsin recounts its presidential votes. However, her gain net gain of 60 votes has barely cut into Trump’s pre-recount lead of about 22,000 votes. Her best hope may be in Milwaukee where counting has been going on for more than a week, but since the absentee ballots have not been include in the Wisconsin Election Board’s spreadsheet it is hard to tell if either candidate is gaining or losing ground.

Milwaukee counts its absentee ballots separately from those cast on the day of election. It does the same for a recount. The WEC says when the absentee ballots are recounted they will be added into Milwaukee’s total.

Wisconsin's presidential recount is finding more votes for both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but not enough Clinton votes for her to significantly cut into Trump's 27,000 vote margin according to figures from the Wisconsin Elections Board tallied through Monday.

The only thing clear from the results of Wisconsin's presidential recount so far is there has not been changes vote totals large enough that could change the outcome. We have the latest spreadsheet, explanations of changes and analysis of what it means.

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NOTE: This post has been updated as of 1:50pm CT Sunday with additional changes from day three. It is still hard to determine exactly how many votes have changed in Wisconsin's presidential recount based upon the Wisconsin Elections Commission spreadsheet posted Saturday night, but so far the answer seems to be not enough to change the election.

A federal judge denied a move to stop Wisconsin's recount on Friday as the Wisconsin Elections Commission urged tabulators to press on. Two political action committees supporting president-elect Donald Trump asked for an immediate stop to the counting, citing the precedent set in the famed Bush v. Gore case that stopped the recount in Florida and gave its electoral votes to George W. Bush, making him president.

Two ballots were randomly drawn from a stack of votes from New Richmond Wisconsin because election workers had discovered two absentee ballot certificates from that reporting unit that did not have the witnesses address. Election workers did not look at at the ballots so they don't know who the votes were for, but that will become apparent when they add up the ballots later today.

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